The Founder

William Hall Sherwood founded the Sherwood Music School in 1895. A protégé of the great Franz Liszt, Sherwood (1854-1911) was the nation's most celebrated pianist and teacher at the turn of the Twentieth Century. He believed that every American child deserved a music education, and was the first to publicly advocate for scholarship support of music students. He took music to the people performing in towns throughout the western frontier.  One of his great legacies was the Sherwood Piano Course, the first standardized text for teaching and learning piano.